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From a purely political perspective, this limit can be described, Žižek tells us, as the inability to politicize the growing masses of excluded subjects as the locus of universality. Th is is a theme he often presents through the old Leninist topos of the “[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]” (where “proletariat” is used as a generic name for the “out-of-joint” class, which today is actually embodied by the [[Lumpenproletariat|''lumpenproletariat'']]) as the only way to break with the hegemony of the biopolitical (''LC'': 413–19), in so far as the latter coincides with the political horizon ''tout court'', whether as a critical or affirmative paradigm:<blockquote>Bio-politics includes the brutal forms of regimentation that exist in our world as well as the desire to prevent human suffering. The old leftist paradigms of the communist and social democratic welfare states are lost … A more radical emancipatory leftist way of thinking and acting needs to be reinvented. And this is what one should struggle for today. (Eikmeyer 2007)</blockquote>As we have seen, this stance is consistent with Žižek’s theory (derived both from Hegel and Lacan), in so far as it posits the “ontological primacy of the remainder” (substanceless subjectivity, self-relating negativity, etc.) ''qua'' empty place of the inscription of a given symbolic order of meaning.
 
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